In your opinion, what is the best way to place things like symbols next to names, if some symbols are meant for text and you have to be in mathmode to use the exponent functionality? What is the command for that specific cross at the end of the name? I checked and found \Cross of the marvosym package, but it was much more bold and shorter to my eyes then the one below.

Also a slightly better title would be appreciated if someone thinks of one.

@night owl Try dagger for the symbol They are all footnote marks.
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Yiannis LazaridesNov 13 '11 at 13:22

It seems like you are looking for footnotes or endnotes. You can obtain the symbol with \dagger
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MarcoNov 13 '11 at 13:24

Thanks. But I think it seems to be some sort of a cross rather than dagger, i.e., not sharp end or round side pointers. You can view this by zooming your screen view maybe 500x
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night owlNov 13 '11 at 13:35

It depends on the font how exactly the symbol looks like.
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MarcoNov 13 '11 at 13:38

Strange enough, standard LaTeX does not define the similar \textsubscript command. A couple of times a customer wanted it, and I ought to define it by the obvious modification of \textsuperscript
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BorisNov 13 '11 at 17:10

Thanks a lot again for those nifty commands textsuperscript and now textsubscript and the package fixltx2e (just found out about that one). I don't know how much grief LaTeX caused me when wanting to do things like this outside the math-mode environment. This will shed major minutes of debugging off my coding time. LoL :)
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night owlNov 14 '11 at 4:14